“Noel may be done with us, but we are not done with him”
The immediate days before Noel was admitted to a hospital in Tucson at the beginning of November 2019 had been especially pleasant ones for him. He was able to visit with Rachel, his daughter, and Sebastian and their children every day. And, because he was without cable TV or the
2020 Election–Impressions and Reflections
America appears to be divided into three more or less equal parts, at least when it comes to the election results. Thus far, just under 78 million people voted for Biden; about 73 million voted for Trump and around 78 million of eligible voters didn’t vote at all. [1] It’s
Rehearsals (Clowns Included)
A couple of weeks ago, an author named Jack Luna explored the significance of the Trump-supporting car/truck and boat parades on Labor Day: “With images of raucous white Americans on parade freshly troubling me, I kept turning that word — parade, parade — over in my head until it suddenly hit me like
What Does Religion Have to Do with It?
My question is prompted by the nomination and likely approval of Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court and the reactions to that. She is, without question, a conservative. Some ascribe that conservatism to her deeply held religious beliefs. Some believe that those beliefs make her unqualified while others all
“Everyone Agrees”
When a politician, TV anchor or newspaper opinion writer starts out by saying that “Everyone agrees”, I think it’s time to pay attention. There are not too many instances where everybody agrees—except about something that’s really wonderful or awful. Everybody does agree, I think, that a rainbow in the sky
But what’s the moral of the story?
On Friday, July 10th, it rained hard all day in Brooklyn. Come mid-afternoon, we decided we needed some stuff from the nearby supermarket. Because it was pouring, I took our car. As I left the house, I was preoccupied with keeping my facemask dry. I parked the car, put the